Physiological markers of anxiety are increased in children of abused mothers.

Background: A growing number of studies indicate that low income, African American men and women living in urban environments are at high risk for trauma exposure, which may have intergenerational effects. The current study employed psychophysiological methods to describe biomarkers of anxiety in children of traumatized mothers.

Methods: Study participants were recruited from a highly traumatized urban population, comprising mother-child pairs (n=36) that included school-age children.

Compressive orthotics in the treatment of asymmetric pectus carinatum: a preliminary report with an objective radiographic marker.

Background/purpose: Pectus carinatum (PC) traditionally has been managed with surgical reconstruction. Compressive orthosis also has resulted in subjective improvement in this defect. The goal of the authors was to develop an alternative brace and an objective radiographic marker to monitor the effects of chest wall compression on sternal protrusion.

In utero appearance of a giant Meckel's diverticulum.

The authors present a case of a Meckel's diverticulum identified during a routine prenatal ultrasound examination as a complex mass, superior and posterior to the urinary bladder, that prompted meticulous postnatal evaluation. A 4.0-cm Meckel's diverticulum containing heterotopic gastric mucosa was excised before complications could arise.

Dynamic ultrafast high resolution CT findings in a case of Swyer-James syndrome.

In a patient with Swyer-James syndrome, the dynamic, ultrafast HRCT (DUHRCT) findings show multifocal bilateral air-trapping that was not seen on chest radiography or conventional CT scan. This technique accentuates the air trapping associated with post-infectious obliterative bronchiolitis, which is underappreciated by plain chest radiography and conventional CT.